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Show Sain Wood. John Swliiton In th' Now York Bun. Let me say a lew words here in praise of the brave pioneer of Knns.is. Sum ooil, u ho HM:is-;is-iiuiled iu theslnte a few days ago. When I went to the newly opened territory of Kansas, nearly thirl v h. e years ngn. in Ihe times of ffohn ISrown of ( Nn vi atomic, during the free soil si niggle (here, I me! youm' Sam Wood, who had then put ii his shingle ns ;i lawyer in the rough and warlike frontier town of Laurence. Kvcrybody I here liked Sam, as he liked everybody. He was an oralor ami it lighliT; ho was oieri-iiiiiiiled. true heal'led and IViM'-lianiled; be was :.t onre earnesl and gay, but h en! husias-tic. husias-tic. and willy, .always ready for a ease in court, a buffalo hunt on the plains, a t rude in (own bits, au adventure in new regions onvexed by sipiat lei's, oraskir-iiii-h willi lhe"l!oiiler II it lli.-i lis. ' He had that quick "YMiius and I hose di ei-'r. e way; whieh eliai'aeterieil n far We-.l-i'i iters, us I k iiew t hem loner tia'o. He had oaiiic lo Kansas frnm Ohio, where. I believe, lie bad been burn and rai -nl. :iud he had gone there for the same reason thai John l!roun went, lie did jrri-id M'i'viro for Kansas as a, slump spi'ake)', a member of the legislature, and wa a resolute ehunpion nf the principles through which if afterward became a free stale. When I left Kansas, previous o Lincoln's Lin-coln's ehvlinn. 1 l"l sight of Sam Wonil, and I heard not fnon him uelil 1 was abroad la -I year. Then he scut men let tor' and agni n, slmvily bolure bis rcci ul dc.'Hh by asasin's Imllei he sent me aiu'lhcr. Ii nppeareil bv his j letters thai he v. as yet the Sam Wnmh.l' old - bright, genial, bciiini'inis, plncl.y and warm hearted, 1 do not fully understand un-derstand from ihe reports I he circiun-stanees circiun-stanees under which I his famous Kansas Kan-sas pioneer was sain. but believe l hat il was in ivienge by a rival u ho had I failed to gel I he advantage m .him. ! His slayer has tided (he .ireer of :i ; man wlui was one of t h" most picture-' p. r.e ligiiresin tlieearlv history of Kan- I K:i--, and has widowed the I rue headed wif" wi-.n iias lived in his life for r. early : forty years. |